I don't want to see a political system in which you can't have conversations with people at the supermarket, in the street, at street meetings, public forums — that's an important part of our democracy.
Concerns about increase in threats of political violence
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We can have differences. They should be debated out in a democracy, but they shouldn't be the subject of personal rancour and the calling into people's motivation where it's not appropriate to do so.
The temperature has undoubtedly been increased. Not just here in Australia, of course. We've seen incidents internationally as well.
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